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Website Hosting is a service which allows the user to make their own website that can be accessible via the Internet world. On World Wide Web, there are large numbers of web hosting companies that sells web space on their server for their users or customers and also offer Internet connectivity in general in a data center. In general, there are only two types of hosting available that are Free Website Hosting and Paid Website Hosting. 

In the free website hosting, the customers or user has the permit to upload his or her contents of the web site on the server space that has been provided by the web hosting company for no cost. The free website hosting service is always beneficial to the people who are new to internet and plans to get well-known about creating sites and functionality of web servers. 

In Paid hosting, you need to pay a periodic fees, say monthly or yearly to upload your website and its contents on the web space provided by a paid website hosting company. The fees are not the same for all the hosting companies, it may vary. The paid web hosting companies are best the professional website owners who need huge web space to upload their websites and who expect a certain amount of website visitors which is not available on free hosting accounts.

Paid web hosting companies receives the income through the bill that is paid by the website owners for the web space. But, whereas in free hosting the ads and banners are the main income sources that are placed on the user’s website pages. 

The free website hosting is the mainly advantage for the newbie’s who are new in the business and are looking for free of cost hosting service. This free of cost service is good for the customers who just want to upload a limited content on the World Wide Web in small amount of web space. 

Another benefit of using the free website hosting service is that most of these companies provide integrated, easy tools to upload the pages on to the hosting account. They do this realizing the fact that the free web site hosting services are generally utilized by the newbie’s. 

Along with the advantages there are few disadvantages of free website hosting services. If you go for free website hosting accounts you will need to place the ads and banners on your web pages that are provided by the web site hosting company. As well as the income which is obtained from the ads and banners goes to the web hosting company. As for paid web hosting service, the income generated from the ads and banners placed on your web site goes in your pocket. 

Some free hosting companies forced you to start your domain name of your website with the webhosting company name. For example: yourdomain.companydomain.com. In paid hosting you get a unique domain and can order the web space according to your website requirement whereas in free hosting the web space is limited.

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To generate a Private Key file for SSL Certificate, one should have a Dedicated IP number. Without a Dedicated IP number the icons in the control panel to generate a Key or Install an SSL Certificate will not show. 

1. Log into your control panel

2. Click the SSL MANAGER Icon (or “SSL/TLS Manager”)

3. Click the Private Key’s icon (or “Generate, view, upload or delete your private keys”) Scroll down to Generate a New Key and select the domain you wish to use with the SSL certificate.

4. Please be sure to type (www) in the box preceding the domain name if you want the certificate to be on www.yourdomain.com, because if you’ve configured your store to work with www, you will get errors with the certificate running on the domain without the www.

5. If you want the SSL Certificate to be on a subdomain such as “secure.domain.com” you will first need to create the subdomain in cpanel, and then type the subdomain in the box there when generating the key.

6. After you have selected the domain you wish to use, click on “Generate” to create the public key file.

7. Copy this information to a text file for later use. You can still retrieve the Key file from the server at a later time, in case something happen to the server and the key file is lost, you may need to purchase a new SSL Certificate.

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